Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine: Expert Consult - Online and Print, 4th edition

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Автор: Paul S. Auerbach MD MS FACEP FAWM

Название: Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine: Expert Consult - Online and Print

Издательство: Mosby

Год: 2013

Формат: PDF

Размер: 23.7 Mb

Язык: Английский

Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine - based on Dr. Auerbach's critically acclaimed text Wilderness Medicine - offers fast-access solutions to all of the medical situations that can occur in non-traditional settings. From backpack to kayak, or on any mobile device, this indispensable, compact survival guide is detailed enough to cover the clinical presentation and treatment of a full range of wilderness emergencies!

- Meet a full-range of emergency situations with the utmost effectiveness. - Appendices address everything from environment-specific situations to lists of essential supplies, medicines, and many additional topics of care.

- Compare what you are seeing with line drawings and color plates to quickly and accurately identify skin manifestations, plants, poisonous mushrooms, snakes, spiders, insects, etc.

- Rapidly retrieve and comprehend wilderness survival information with the aid of an easily accessible format featuring "Signs and Symptoms" and "Treatment" sections in most chapters - combined with bulleted lists and text boxes.

- Improvise with available materials so you can diagnose and treat a myriad of medical situations with step-by-step how-to explanations and the latest practical advice from wilderness medicine experts.

- Get guidance on the go with online access to the fully searchable text at Expert Consult, plus bonus downloadable files for Survival Kits.

- Get the wilderness medicine skills you need now with new chapters on foot problems and care, global humanitarian relief and disaster medicine, Leave No - Trace principles, and high-altitude medicine, as well as lists to prepare a variety of survival kits for different settings and patient populations.

- Improve your competency and readiness with thoroughly revised chapters on shock, maxillofacial trauma, malaria, improvised litters and carries, aeromedical transport, pain management, life-threatening emergencies, and allergic reactions.